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In my final look back at 2025, I’m looking at my blog performance and favorite posts again. You know that I love data, so this type of post is a lot of fun for me. If you enjoy data, too, take a look at the Data tag<\/a> for posts you may have missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My yearly reminder: I’m aware that the stats I have available to me are almost certainly tainted by bots, VPNs, etc. But, they’re still fun to look through. I know<\/em> there are some other data nerds out there, so this post goes out to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

All-Time Stats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Given my downward trend in the number of posts in the last few years, I suppose it’s not entirely surprising that, for the first time, I had fewer views than last year. Let’s see if we can turn that around for this year. I also made my Lume deodorant review unsearchable toward the end of last year because I was getting all sorts of weird comments on it, and that was a significant chunk of views each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reminder for those who haven’t seen the previous years’ posts: 2017 only had half a year, as I started my blog on June 15, and originally planned it to be related to books and reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total Views: 263,180 | Total Posts: 842 | Total Words: 677,934<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stat<\/th>2017<\/th>2018<\/th>2019<\/th>2020<\/th>2021<\/th>2022<\/th>2023<\/th>2024<\/th>2025<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Views<\/td>1,133<\/td>5,593<\/td>16,301<\/td>9,242<\/td>15,730<\/td>36,463<\/td>51,102<\/td>66,222<\/td>60,857<\/td><\/tr>
Avg. Views per Day<\/td>7<\/td>15<\/td>44<\/td>25<\/td>43<\/td>101<\/td>140<\/td>181<\/td>167<\/td><\/tr>
Posts<\/td>70<\/td>137<\/td>79<\/td>21<\/td>136<\/td>104<\/td>114<\/td>98<\/td>83<\/td><\/tr>
Words<\/td>46.6K<\/td>99.7K<\/td>27.4K<\/td>23.7K<\/td>88.2K<\/td>90.8K<\/td>124.5K<\/td>88.5K<\/td>86.6K<\/td><\/tr>
Avg. Words per Post<\/td>666<\/td>728<\/td>347<\/td>1,126<\/td>648<\/td>873<\/td>1,093<\/td>903<\/td>1,043<\/td><\/tr>
Book Posts<\/td>41<\/td>73<\/td>26<\/td>14<\/td>10<\/td>12<\/td>12<\/td>9<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
Cat Posts<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>5<\/td>2<\/td>16<\/td>3<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
Fountain Pen Posts<\/td>1<\/td>21<\/td>38<\/td>2<\/td>47<\/td>63<\/td>51<\/td>47<\/td>28<\/td><\/tr>
Ink Posts<\/td>0<\/td>4<\/td>3<\/td>0<\/td>34<\/td>9<\/td>21<\/td>24<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2025 Stats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The metrics below only pertain to 2025 posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Countries by Views<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Continuing an 8-year trend, the USA still accounts for the vast majority of my total views, beating out the next highest (the UK) by nearly 33,000 views this year. However, there were many other changes to viewership this year, with China appearing out of nowhere to be number 4, and India jumping to number 5 above Germany and Australia, who swapped places again this year. France and Spain also swapped places again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. United States – 36,533<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. United Kingdom – 3,985<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Canada – 2,734<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. China – 1,735<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. India – 1,463<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Germany – 1,460<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Australia – 1,357<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Netherlands – 864<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. France – 671<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Spain – 651<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Top Referrers by Views<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    A referrer is a webpage that sends visitors to a site \u2014 in this case, mine \u2014 using a link. In other words, it’s the webpage that a person was on right before they landed on my site. I combined some results, where the base domain was the same \u2014 for example, there were three different results related to Reddit. I’ll have to do some research into number 8, as it’s a link tracking site used in emails. I’m not sure which email service uses it; perhaps WordPress, in their subscription emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Search Engines – 22,458\n